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Protect Your Hog Farm From Vandalism

Jan 15, 2010 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

The Pork Checkoff suggests steps to guard your investments and yourself. The recent vandalism of a northwest Iowa hog farm that resulted in the loss of...More

Welfare audits and guidelines

HSUS Leads Fight for Ballot Initiative in Ohio

Feb 2, 2010 1:55 PM

Just three months after Ohio voters approved creating the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, animal activist groups led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) are seeking to gather enough signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot...

Protect Your Hog Farm From Vandalism

Jan 15, 2010 12:00 PM, By Joe Vansickle Senior Editor

The Pork Checkoff suggests steps to guard your investments and yourself. The recent vandalism of a northwest Iowa hog farm that resulted in the loss of...

Topping Two Market Hogs Per Finishing Pen is Optimal

Dec 15, 2009 12:00 PM

Removal of the heaviest market-weight pigs several days before marketing the whole group (topping) improves growth performance of the remaining pigs in the pens...

Regulations

HSUS Leads Fight for Ballot Initiative in Ohio

Feb 2, 2010 1:55 PM

Just three months after Ohio voters approved creating the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, animal activist groups led by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) are seeking to gather enough signatures to put a referendum on the November ballot...

Missouri May be Next Target For Animal Rights Activists

Dec 7, 2009 4:37 PM

Missouri state officials have confirmed that the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has identified Missouri as the next state battleground for restricting certain animal and livestock production practices, according to the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC)...

Michigan Animal Welfare Bills Face Activist ScrutinyMichigan Animal Welfare Bills Face Activist Scrutiny

Aug 4, 2009 2:21 PM

Animal rights activists say the bills don’t go far enough to protect livestock. But Michigan farm officials counter the bills back accepted standards that have proven to be best practices for animal care...

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At what point do we punt the December Hogs and Pigs Report? That is the question that is weighing on the minds of both market analysts and producers as hog slaughter numbers remain far below expected levels and weights show no signs of "backed up" hogs. I realize there are performance issues, so let's discuss the report, what it suggested for this spring, and the forces that could be driving numbers in various directions.

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Year-End Meat Inventories Down

Friday's Cold Storage report was not wildly bullish, but was certainly good news regarding the status of frozen meat and poultry inventories. Stocks for every species were well below year-ago levels and lower than the already-low levels reported in the December report. Data for all meat and poultry species appears in Table 1 and the monthly species totals are shown in Figure 1 to provide a historical perspective.

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